Series of lectures/talks
Series of lectures/talks
February 25, 2025 — September 15, 2025, a total of 5 periods
Speaker | Hu Yilin
2025/8/14—Continuously updated
Participants | Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
2025/6/15—Continuously updating
Speaker | Hu Yilin
Encrypted Flight Vol.11 | Do Tsinghua alumni dream of a Bitcoin-based world? Interview with Hu Yilin
April 27, 2025
Speaker | Hu Yilin
In this interview, Hu Yilin discusses the reasons for leaving Tsinghua and diving into the Web3 world. He analyzes the lack of structural freedom and the gradual functionalization of intellectual workers, starting from the operating logic within the academic system. He sees Bitcoin as a real experience amid institutional fractures, a philosophical response to the modern credit system. In the face of the chaos and instability of Web3, we do not need to deify Web3, but rather see it as a new experimental field for institutions. The discussion ultimately returns to judgment itself: which systems are worth keeping and which can be rewritten.
Summary version: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2ZQVRTshnxU7tlT5fCESYQ
Full version: https://blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight-v Reporter’s note/
In this interview, Hu Yilin discusses the reasons for leaving Tsinghua and diving into the Web3 world. He analyzes the lack of structural freedom and the gradual functionalization of intellectual workers, starting from the operating logic within the academic system. He sees Bitcoin as a real experience amid institutional fractures, a philosophical response to the modern credit system. In the face of the chaos and instability of Web3, we do not need to deify Web3, but rather see it as a new experimental field for institutions. The discussion ultimately returns to judgment itself: which systems are worth keeping and which can be rewritten.
Summary version: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2ZQVRTshnxU7tlT5fCESYQ
Full version: https://blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight-v Reporter’s note/
In this interview, Hu Yilin discusses the reasons for leaving Tsinghua and diving into the Web3 world. He analyzes the lack of structural freedom and the gradual functionalization of intellectual workers, starting from the operating logic within the academic system. He sees Bitcoin as a real experience amid institutional fractures, a philosophical response to the modern credit system. In the face of the chaos and instability of Web3, we do not need to deify Web3, but rather see it as a new experimental field for institutions. The discussion ultimately returns to judgment itself: which systems are worth keeping and which can be rewritten.
Summary version: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/2ZQVRTshnxU7tlT5fCESYQ
Full version: https://blog.uncommons.cc/cryptoflight-v Reporter’s note/
Reading series
Reading series
Book Club | "The Poverty of Symbolism I"
February 15, 2025—September 11, 2025, a total of 18 installments
Reader: Hu Yilin, Shen Cong
"Symbolic Poverty I" was first published in 1996 and is a profound reflection by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on contemporary capitalist culture and psychological structures.
The proliferation of technology has made people increasingly reliant on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, resulting in a gradual impoverishment of human "thinking" and "memory" capabilities. In the book, Stiegler introduces the concept of "re-individuation," advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the mental poverty caused by the technology-capital system. The reading group will discuss three main issues: "the decline of the symbolic," "the relationship between technology and the spirit," and "how to reinvent meaning," attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and treatment of contemporary cultural ailments.
"Symbolic Poverty I" was first published in 1996 and is a profound reflection by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on contemporary capitalist culture and psychological structures.
The proliferation of technology has made people increasingly reliant on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, resulting in a gradual impoverishment of human "thinking" and "memory" capabilities. In the book, Stiegler introduces the concept of "re-individuation," advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the mental poverty caused by the technology-capital system. The reading group will discuss three main issues: "the decline of the symbolic," "the relationship between technology and the spirit," and "how to reinvent meaning," attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and treatment of contemporary cultural ailments.
"Symbolic Poverty I" was first published in 1996 and is a profound reflection by French philosopher Bernard Stiegler on contemporary capitalist culture and psychological structures.
The proliferation of technology has made people increasingly reliant on external devices to store, transmit, and process information, resulting in a gradual impoverishment of human "thinking" and "memory" capabilities. In the book, Stiegler introduces the concept of "re-individuation," advocating for the reconstruction of the symbolic structures of culture and education to resist the mental poverty caused by the technology-capital system. The reading group will discuss three main issues: "the decline of the symbolic," "the relationship between technology and the spirit," and "how to reinvent meaning," attempting to understand Stiegler's diagnosis and treatment of contemporary cultural ailments.
2025/2/16—Continuously updated. Issue 22 has been updated.
Reader | Hu Yilin
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